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The perspective of architecture : in two parts : a work entirely new, deduced from the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor and performed by two rules only of universal application ...

by: Kirby, John Joshua, 1716-1774

Publication date: 1761

Topics: Architecture -- Early works to 1800, Perspective -- Early works to 1800

Publisher: London : Printed for the author ... by R. Francklin ..., and sold by T. Payne ... [and 6 others]

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Item Size: 3.7G

[6], 82, [2], ii, 60, [2] p., [2], XXV, LXXIII leaves of plates : 55 cm. (fol.)

Errata: verso of final index leaf

With an engraved dedication leaf. Frontispiece signed: "Wm. Hogarth July 1760. Wm. Woollett sculp."

The second part has a separate title page, pagination and a final index

Plates by P. Mazell, J. Gwynn, J. Fougeron, F. Patton, A. Walker, J. Basire, and others

(from t.p.) Part the first contains the description and use of a new instrument called the architectonic sector -- Part the second, a new method of drawing the five orders, elegant structures, &c., in perspective